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POPLARVILLE – Two sophomore members of the Pearl River Community College women’s basketball team signed scholarship offers to four-year colleges Thursday in a brief signing ceremony at M.R. White Coliseum on the PRCC campus.

Sophomore guard Shaniqua Magee signed with the University of West Florida, in Pensacola, Fla., while sophomore guard Asia Thibodeaux inked with Tougaloo College in Jackson.

POPLARVILLE – Chris Oney has a vision of maintaining the championship tradition in men’s basketball at Pearl River Community College, and to do that he’s looking for players with a championship background.

That makes his two most recent signees doubly important, as the Wildcats look to reload after losing 10 sophomores.

PRCC won the services of Cameron Douglas and Javontae McDavid from Columbus High, which won its first Class 6A state championship last month in its first season under veteran head coach Luther Riley.

POPLARVILLE – Big plays and exciting action were the order of the day Thursday night at M.R. White Coliseum on the Pearl River Community College campus.

A crowd estimated at about 500 saw some of the top basketball talent in South Mississippi in the inaugural PRCC Select All-Star Classic.

The event featured four games matching teams of players from PRCC’s six-county district (Forrest, Hancock, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion and Pearl River counties), as well as several surrounding schools.

POPLARVILLE – Pearl River Community College men’s basketball coach Chris Oney said he wanted his first recruiting class to be based on local prospects, and so far, the results have borne that out.

PRCC announced an initial signing class of six players, three of whom come directly from the school’s six-county district, which consists of Forrest, Hancock, Jefferson Davis, Lamar, Marion and Pearl River counties.

All six come from within the state of Mississippi.

“We’re very excited about the guys we’ve got,” said Oney, who took over as the Wildcats coach in November.

POPLARVILLE – Pearl River Community College women’s basketball coach Scotty Fletcher believes a lot of travel and hard work has paid off in a signing class that will help the Lady Wildcats climb quickly into the ranks of the state’s elite junior college teams.

Fletcher, who recently completed his first season as the head coach at PRCC, announced the signing of 14 players to junior college scholarships, including a transfer from the University of South Alabama and the Player of the Year in Baldwin County, Ala.

FULTON – Pearl River Community College had no answer in the second half against East Mississippi in the quarterfinals of the MACJC Men’s Basketball State Tournament.

As a result, the Wildcats’ stay in the tournament at the Davis Event Center on the Itawamba Community College campus was brief, as they were eliminated with an 80-73 loss to the Lions, ending PRCC’s two-year reign as state champions.

POPLARVILLE – It was a far more difficult struggle than expected, but Pearl River Community College escaped an upset bid by Meridian and held on for an 83-81 victory Thursday night in men’s basketball action at M.R. White Coliseum.

The win earned the Wildcats a share of the South Division championship with Jones County, and thanks to Copiah-Lincoln’s 71-69 upset win over Mississippi Gulf Coast, PRCC will be the South No. 1 seed for next week’s MACJC State Tournament.